Analysis News Kanye West just sold 10,000 Stem Players in 3 days… as he claims he rejected a $100m deal from Apple One of the most interesting release experiments in modern music is about to take place via Ye's Donda 2
News Dan Rutman joins Spotify as Head of Music Creator Partnerships Rutman was most recently Head of Business Development at TuneCore
Analysis News From SoundCloud’s $218m+ revenues to Snoop Dogg’s $44m+ worth of NFTs: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories of the week – and why they matter
News Gülce Özyeşilpinar promoted into expanded role as GM, Warner Music Turkey and VP, Marketing, Eastern Mediterranean Özyeşilpınar will take on responsibility for marketing across Cyprus, Greece and Israel
Analysis News If you wanted to know why Sony Music bought AWAL… this is why The signing of girl in red to Columbia could be a key case study in the Sony-AWAL story
News Spotify acquires two podcast firms, Podsights and Chartable Podsights is a podcast advertising measurement service, and Chartable is a podcast analytics platform
News Barry McKee, Warner Chappell Music UK’s Head of Administration, passes away, aged 59 McKee had worked at WCM for more than 30 years
News Peloton releases video game ‘Lanebreak’, with Warner Music Group as a launch partner The first artist themed levels to launch on Lanebreak are two Warner-distributed artists: David Bowie and David Guetta.
News Avex USA and Sony Music Publishing strike global administration deal SMP will provide worldwide administration services (ex. Japan) to Avex USA’s catalog and roster
News Jhared ‘Jae’ Brown joins Island Records as Vice President, A&R Brown comes to Island after two years at indie label Rostrum Records
News Sweden’s Pophouse is investing in music rights, as it adds Airbnb and EQT execs to its board Powell is currently the Global Head of Hosting at Airbnb, while Alexandra Lutz is partner at investment firm EQT
News Sony Music Publishing has a new head of US A&R: Walter Jones joins firm in EVP role Jones was most recently Co-Head of A&R at Universal Music Publishing Group
News Universal partners with Marc Geiger-backed NFT platform Curio to develop NFTs for its global artists and labels UMG becomes the first major music company to collaborate with Curio
News Riptide Music CEO Keatly Haldeman exits, launches Web3 music sync licensing platform, Dequency Firm has already raised $4.5m through an investment round led by Borderless Capital
News Jeremy Vuernick promoted to President of A&R at Capitol Music Group Vuernick will lead the company’s A&R team and sign and develop artists for the company
News BMG acquires music interests of blues icon John Lee Hooker The acquisition is the latest in a string of recent deals completed by BMG to acquire rights from superstar musicians
News After partnering with Universal, Aerosmith strike global brand management deal with Epic Rights Universal's merchandising arm Bravado fully acquired Los Angeles-based Epic Rights for an undisclosed sum in 2019
News Kid Cudi co-founded AR music app Encore launches with $9m in funding Funding round was led by Battery Ventures